While Washington spent the week focused on one of the most anticipated Congressional hearings in years, what was once the foremost issue in the nation's capital got put on a fast track.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday implemented "Rule 14" for the GOP's Obamacare replacement bill. The rule allows the House-passed American Health Care Act to bypass committee discussion and go on the Senate calendar for a vote once a revised version is complete. Congress is set to go on recess July 4.The sweeping move went under the radar as attention in the Capitol was focused on fired FBI Director James Comey's Thursday testimony to the Senate intelligence committee on his meetings with President Donald Trump.Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz alleged in a tweet "13 Republican men are meeting in secret to make a healthcare plan. Their plan is to do it so fast we can't stop them. Stop them."During a meeting Thursday in the finance committee, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) if there would be a hearing on the bill. Hatch replied he didn't know if there would be another hearing but "we've invited you to participate and your ideas.""We have no idea what's being proposed," McCaskill said in an emotional response."We are now so far from regular order, the new members don't even know what it looks like."Earlier in the week during a meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump pressed the need to "get a bill across the finish line this summer." On Wednesday, he met with families negatively affected by the Affordable Care Act, not long after Anthem announced it was pulling out of Ohio's insurance marketplace for 2018."If Congress doesn’t act to save Americans from this Democrat-inflicted catastrophe, next year is only going to get worse, a lot worse."A report from the Congressional Budget Office released May 24 says the AHCA would leave 23 million people uninsured by 2026, but reduce the budget by $119 billion in the same time frame.

While Washington spent the week focused on one of the most anticipated Congressional hearings in years, what was once the foremost issue in the nation's capital got put on a fast track.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday implemented "Rule 14" for the GOP's Obamacare replacement bill. The rule allows the House-passed American Health Care Act to bypass committee discussion and go on the Senate calendar for a vote once a revised version is complete. Congress is set to go on recess July 4.

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It begins: McConnell initiates the "Rule 14" process of putting the House-passed AHCA on the Senate calendar for fast-track consideration.

The sweeping move went under the radar as attention in the Capitol was focused on fired FBI Director James Comey's Thursday testimony to the Senate intelligence committee on his meetings with President Donald Trump.

Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz alleged in a tweet "13 Republican men are meeting in secret to make a healthcare plan. Their plan is to do it so fast we can't stop them. Stop them."

13 Republican men are meeting in secret to make a healthcare plan. Their plan is to do it so fast we can't stop them. Stop them.

During a meeting Thursday in the finance committee, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) if there would be a hearing on the bill. Hatch replied he didn't know if there would be another hearing but "we've invited you to participate and your ideas."

"We have no idea what's being proposed," McCaskill said in an emotional response.

"We are now so far from regular order, the new members don't even know what it looks like."

Earlier in the week during a meeting with Republican lawmakers, Trump pressed the need to "get a bill across the finish line this summer." On Wednesday, he met with families negatively affected by the Affordable Care Act, not long after Anthem announced it was pulling out of Ohio's insurance marketplace for 2018.

"If Congress doesn’t act to save Americans from this Democrat-inflicted catastrophe, next year is only going to get worse, a lot worse."

A report from the Congressional Budget Office released May 24 says the AHCA would leave 23 million people uninsured by 2026, but reduce the budget by $119 billion in the same time frame.